Emergency Physician Job Satisfaction in Hong Kong

Objective

We aimed to explore the visibility of emergency medicine (EM) journals in mainland China based on the coverage by major indexing and abstracting information agencies and services.

Methodology

We first searched each journal by entering its title in Google's search engine, and then entered its home page to collect associated information, like publication cycle, journal language, publisher, editorial board, authors, and journal website. Second, to collect the inclusion information, totally ten databases were selected on the basis that they were considered as representative sources within the biomedicine. We adopted two forms for searching every journal: searching for every Chinese EM journal title (both English title and Chinese ‘ping yin’ title), and searching for the word ‘China’ from the fields provided for publisher of sources or for country of publication of sources indexed.

Results

Currently, in Mainland China, there were 13 EM journals, 12 in Chinese and one in English. Among them, both Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and BIOSIS Previews (BP) did not include any EM journals; both MEDLINE and Abstract Journals (AJ) included only one, respectively; Scopus, EMBASE, Index Copernicus (IC), and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) indexed two journals, respectively; Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) included four journals, and Chemical Abstracts (CA) included six journals.

Conclusion

Only a few Chinese EM journals are indexed or abstracted in the international databases. More work should be done to achieve higher visibility of EM journals. (Hong Kong j.emerg.med. 2015;22:41-45)

Workplace violence in Hong Kong, China: nature, impact, and preparedness

This article reports a survey of workplace violence in Hong Kong. A sizable number of the 1,198 organizations that were questioned reported that they had experienced such violence over the 2 years preceding the study, but the problem was not prevalent. In both the private and government sectors, nonphysical violence happened more frequently than physical violence, and there was a reported lack of preparedness of many organizations to deal with the violence. Compared with private organizations, government organizations experienced more coworker and customer violence, but more private than government organizations believed that workplace violence caused the loss of key employees and clients. Correlation analysis found that a subculture of workplace violence appears to emerge over time, such that the more customer violence is experienced, the more is coworker violence, and the more the nonphysical violence, the more the physical violence. These findings are discussed with reference to international findings.